Defense secretary OKs Medal of Honor for WWI hero

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

In this July 10 file photo, a statue of Henry Johnson is displayed in the Arbor Hill neighborhood in Albany, N.Y. The secretary of defense has recommended awarding a posthumous Medal of Honor to the black soldier from upstate New York who saved a comrade while fighting off a German attack in France ...

ALBANY, N.Y.—The secretary of defense has recommended a posthumous Medal of Honor for a black World War I soldier from upstate New York who saved a comrade while fighting off a Ger...